It’s been a few months since I’ve been able to report any progress with my latest book, The Unintentional Interim. The last time I did so was in January, when I’d just finished the developmental edits (i.e., revisions to the overall presentation of the content). I knew that the next phase would be the copyedits,Continue reading “The Copy Has Been Edited”
Author Archives: Jeff Nelson
Offbeat Blackout Poems
Regular blog readers and Instagram followers know how much I enjoy creating blackout poems. I use old free books to make them, but occasionally use other means as well. I enjoy seeing what alternative sentences emerge from the words on a given page. Sometimes they seem profound, at other times they’re rather ordinary. And sometimes,Continue reading “Offbeat Blackout Poems”
Pancakes and Inspiration
A few years ago, I read Theft By Finding by David Sedaris, which is a collection of his diary entries from 1977 to 2002. Most of them are very short, and mostly stories and concrete observations rather than expressions or explorations of feelings. Even the most mundane things that he writes down are interesting snippets of aContinue reading “Pancakes and Inspiration”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 